Ga Seems To Have Changed Our Url

actually nothing has been changed and there arent as far as we are aware any cononical issues but this month GA has been reporting our home page as /index.htm as oppose to its usual /

I cannot figure out why this change has happened.

I have just added the cononical tag to see if that will correct it in GA but never had to do this previously and wondering if they are related? i.e they reset everything on launch of this tag acceptance awaiting our own instructions(?) Thing is tho we already express our preferred url in webmaster tools of course.

You're talking about in Google Analytics, right? Not in Google overall.

I'm not sure if the rel="canonical" element is going to have any effect on Google Analytics at all. It's going to report the page someone is actually on, as reported by their browser.

You'll want to check your internal linkage, how your site's home page is being listed in Google and the other search engines and so on. Because if index.htm is showing up in Analytics people are actually at that address. So they're getting there somehow.

You're talking about in Google Analytics, right? Not in Google overall.

I'm not sure if the rel="canonical" element is going to have any effect on Google Analytics at all. It's going to report the page someone is actually on, as reported by their browser.

You'll want to check your internal linkage, how your site's home page is being listed in Google and the other search engines and so on. Because if index.htm is showing up in Analytics people are actually at that address. So they're getting there somehow.

Hi Randy,

No, the index.html does not appear in any results or in any link anywhere. GA has simply started 'reporting' the people landing on the / as actually landing on the index.html with no changes whatsoever been made to our structure. Actually I have htaccess edited to always be the / and has been this way forever. Now no info is being shown at all for the / , every single visitor is being reported as seeing the index.html. If there were a mix up with both urls beeing available then both urls would be showing but as I say, it has simply changed from / to index.html

It is definately a reporting issue ( or decision) with GA.

I've added to the canonical tag simply to re-enforce this set up because obviously it is messing with analytics reports, funnels, goals etc etc at this moment

Altho this shouldnt have made any difference it is a bit of a coincidence. No one else seems to have seen a change to this 'default' url so as it wont hurt to change it back I have just done so and will be interesting if the reported url changes back to the usual / one immediately.

I also noticed that click through rates were not being tracked from "/" when checking "/" in the site overlay. I suspect that it 'would' display if I did have "/index.html" in trhe browser (of course I cant do that cos it rewrites)

Probably not very useful findings but interesting just the same if you are into this stuff and just shows how tiny things can have wierd consequences sometimes.